The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-04
JAY GOULD'S VICTIMS.
An Interesting Account of His Tilt
Against His Foes.

NEW ORh, July S.-f1Snly I1dTU, WHO Is
mentioned as one of the victims stung by
that cobra of the financial jingle, Jay
Gould, is a fat, coarse little man, vulger az
the Indian Giaour in the Persian tale of
Vathek, and seemingly as well fitted for as
summing the shape of q ball and rolling out of
difficulties, despite the kicks and cuffs of the
specializing caliph and his crowd of eager
followers, seen on Wallstree Henry Hart,
short, squat, unctious, loud, positive and
filthy -tongued, might be taken for a
fairly successful dealer in suspenders
and shoe, strings He could buy a good
deal of that kind of merchandise. He came
originally from London, and is worth at
least $40, 100000. He is a shrewd. pushing
man of business He didn't know the shib-
boleth, however, when Gould's mine, which
had been run under his earthworks, was eX-
ploded and he came near being Knocked on
the head. He is about Is years of age, gray
eyed and round featured, and about as
short in stature as Jay Gould, who
would attract no notice on the street, but
Hart is powerfully built He usually has a
cheap looking black silk hat perched on the
back of his head. His talk is in many re-
spects curious, to express the idea mildly.
He will go into Russell Sages office and tell
the clerks TO inform Sage that he had called
and to say that he couldn't wait all day
cluileIs dI tle same ulIlle cutudcUeTlLuS MT.
Sage in language that would make
that individual stare with horror. He
will go to the tape, and seeing the
market for Pacific Mail running down
rapidly, will talk of d thieves and scoun-
drels, not to mention unprintable epithets
that make the clerks look pale and nervous.
His opinion of Gould is expressed in terms
that at least lack nothing in emphasis, and
would delight tough from the Sixth ward.
thu Mail
dates back to the time when he began a
fight against President Houston, of
that company. whom he succeeded in
driving from the presidency. Hart
has for some years been a very large stock
holder in the Pacific Mail, and at the last
election succeeded in installing a number of
his cronies and tools as directors in the COM
pany. Having got control of its affairs he
found that young Gould, contrary TO expec-
tations, would not accept the position of
President in the company, as he would be a
mereS fgurehead under the circumstances.
Harris lawyer, Lauterbach, declined to
accept it, and thereupon Hart had
himself elected to the place. He had appar-
emily thrown the Gould party completely
into the shade, and he thought he had made
grand coup. To-day he finds that the
bitter is bitten. Hart, it seems, besides his
large holdings of Pacific Mail as an invest
ment, was carrying considerable of that
stock on margin at the time of the recent
crash. He found that the price of the stock
was not only vigorously attacked, but that
his loans were called in very sharply.
The president of a trust company
in which Gould is interested ex-
planning to Mr. Hart the necessity of call
ing some loans made to him, was extremely
polite, saying "At any other time, Mr..
Hart, we should be most happy to oblige
you; we are really very sorry indeed to call
this loan, and only the most urgent circum-
stances compel us to do so, etc"
Mr.. Hart eyed him a second and then, so to
speak, spattered the smooth spoken financial
officer with a wealth of vulgar, not
to say obscene abuse. He went
around to II Broadway to see Gould,
and, meeting Sidney Dillon, very courte-
Gus old gentleman. with not little refine
ment of speech and manner, the latter asked
Mr.. Hart where he was going. Mr.. Harris
reply cannot be printed. 1t showed the ma
ture Of the man. Not but that his condem-
nation of Gould and his confederates was
just enough, aside from It's needless Vul-
garity He had had little sympathy, how
ever, because it was merely game of finan-
cial checkers, in which Hart made the first
move and thought he was to be the winner.
Gould made the next move and Jump
ed clear to the king row. He will be
supreme in Pacific Mail hereafter, and may
nave more 10 say dDOuU Une lnlTu Avenue
Surface Railroad than Mr.. Hart will relish.
As Mr.. Gould is largely interested in the
Manhattan Elevated road, any interest
which he may acquire in the Surface road
will tend to minimize its hostility to the
Elevated, and the suits brought against the
Manhattan by the Hart faction may not
prove so dangerous as was at
one time supposed. Hart used to
be pawn broker here. He had
fxyn in at.ly nd tha
Bowery, and made great deal of money.
He started the Third Avenue Horse railroad
largely on borrowed money, and it has
proven mint The Elevated hurt the sur
face road and Hart has been eager for re-
venge, but his ardor may now be somewhat
cooled. The stories about the losses of
Cyrus w. Field are very conflicting, and it
is probable that he has not been so great
sufferer as was at one time supposed.
He is a locomotive in trousers for
energy and push, and it is doubtful
whether he could ever be perma-
nently relegated to a side track in the
railroad world He probably acquired
much of his Manhattan stock at low price.
Henry S. Ives, the meteor of finance, struck
a planet in the downward rush of specula-
tion, and the meteor got rather the worst
of it, Gould, it seems called number of
loans on young Ives, who looks like a
sophomore, but has a jaw indicative of an
iron will, and cool grey eyes that meet his
enemies with look that has no fear Au-
dacity seems to be a prominent character
istic When Gould called some loans for
the purpose of Gripping the youngster, he
sent back word to Mr. Gould: $50 to
sheol" with other defiant expressions. He
seems, however, to have renewed the loans
at higher rates. Gould never showed him
self a more willy or bloodless Machiavelli of
finance than he has of late For dead or
an insane man-as reports have made him
he has done wonders. Like a financial
general, he has moved on his victims by
several roads at once, and he remains a
victor on the field covered with shameful
glory, and richer by millions than before
the fateful Black Friday, June 81.
OSCAR WLLoUGHBY RIGGS.
A French thermometer has been devised
Of such constituencies that it will even de